Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

With 1.2 and the MeeGo announcement, it's a bit of a busy day today :) Ofcourse that means there's no longer any excuse to wait for 4.6, so you C++ and Qt guys get to work ;)

I can understand where you are coming from, but at the same time the fact is that in the open source community many projects are carried on or are using parts of other projects. It wouldn't be fair to exclude these projects either. There is a part in the rules where it states that the entry.. actually i'll go fetch it..

"Already released software must have a substantial upgrade from previous releases to qualify for judging and must also contain a list of changes the author has made to the previous version.
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So it is something that's taken into consideration with the entry. Once it comes to judging then everyone has to make their own opinion if the latest work done is worth their vote or not :)

I must admit, the categories are something that worries me sometimes. Basically I took them from the app Categorise and a few online sources. What fits in one category or another is sometimes very subjective, I mean what about a desktop widget that records the surrounding noise and stores the file with GPS coordinates to the phone.. is that desktop app, a multimedia category app, or location catgeory app? lol

I asked a couple of pages back if it would be a good idea to have a competition committee who could help decide this sort of thing and any disputes, no response as yet though..

tumblr is a blogging app right? It kind of does a bit of everything (according to google..), I would put it in 'other' for the meantime anyway. If anyone is in any doubt I'd suggest adding it to what you feel is closest of the 6 categories, but please keep in the back of your mind there's a possibility that it could be moved..

b0unc3, I don't think it's likely we can bring in another category. In fact, 6 is probably too many. If you think of bounty split, for example, that's 6 "winners" to start off with. If you want to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd then you got 18 shares to think of...What maybe could do is rename or better name one of the existing ones?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

I know what you mean... I've to admit that playing with categories is really hard ;)
Also renaming a category is quite hard, the current categories seem to be good and many developers find the right place where their applications belong ... but sometimes someone will fails, but I will assume that with the 'other' category we are quite ok.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

Will donate 5USD as soon as I get a summer On-Campus Job.

Yeah, the amount is low but cant help, I am a student.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

lol yeah I remember those happy student days, $5 would feed and clothe me for a week.. or well it had to do :)

Any amount is very welcome indeed, if you find out later than you can afford it then let me know and I'll add you to the list. If the summer job doesnt work out then don't sweat it, spend your free time learning some coding instead.. and throw $10 in the next comp when you're rich and famous with your new fancy Qt coding skills :p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

kojacker: are there already news regarding the maemo.org paypal account?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

I have heard nothing new about it, I was wondering if you got a reply to the email you sent?

Reminds me Im also waiting on a thread title change..

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

I've sent Randy a new mail.
Should we use a private paypal account, if it doesn't work with the maemo.org one?
We need to open donations as soon as possible.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

I also want to donate 20 dollar. Please let me know where I can pay for this veryvery good idea to hold a competetion of coding.:D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

I've sorted out my paypal account, so I will also donate $20.

My attempt at getting an announcement on a Czech linux website was succesful: http://www.root.cz/zpravicky/soutez-...kaci-pro-n900/ :)

The second link in the article leads to this thread.

Briefly, cos I don't have the time to translate it now, it introduces the competition and mentions the categories and that the 6 winners will get the trip to the Dublin conference from Nokia. It also says that although this is named "The First N900 coding competition", it is actually the second, the first one was organized on that website in january and the winner will get an N900 in about 2 weeks. I knew about that competition (sadly I missed the application deadline for it), should have told you guys to name this one "The Second" :D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!
 

A billion thanks jacobkorf and lukash for the pledges, I'll add them to the lists. I'll send you everyone a pm, jacobkorf, when we get the paypal situation sorted :)

We're at $365, getting close to the magic $400. Then onto the magic $500, then the magic $1000000.. then.. then.. then.. then we're going to scrap the competition and buy Nokia instead! :D Please keep some suggestions coming in about how you would like to see the bounty split. I might run a poll on it if the discussion stays quiet, it's just to have some sort of consencus on it.

Thanks again Lukash, for getting our details on the Czech website. :cool:

Gosh.. i had no idea we weren't the first! Nobody wanted to tell us until now and spoil our fun I guess :p Well.. ok we're not the first one but we're the next first one hehe

Thanks for sending another mail. He's posted today in the forums, hopefully he's just behind on his mails :confused:

I wonder if there's some way we can push it, perhaps in the community section or brainstorm section? TBH I never venture much into there, Im not sure if a maemo.org paypal counts.. I guess it might. What do you think?

I agree we need to turn pledges into donations as soon as possible, I'd like to get something sorted or moving by the end of the month, else we'll do it privately just to keep the show on the road.. so to speak :) End of the month might help people too with pay days etc.

By the way, do you think we should set up a maemo.org competition repository for the entrants' applications?